Anish Kapoor made “Cloud Gate”, a giant bean-shaped mirror in Chicago. Visitors play with the light in the city and its surroundings, where our future lays.
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Clay Stories, a travelling exhibition, showcases ceramic art from Indigenous artists across the country. It is a triumphant display of specific stories and Dreamings, standing against cultural and political amnesia.
Public art and gender politics clash in corporate America.
The Ecstasy of St Teresa is the point of departure for a new exhibition examining ecstasy in all its guises, from the sexual to the spiritual to the banal.
The artist’s figures are alone and vulnerable.
Over the past 100 years, discarded and secondhand goods have been used by artists to reject mainstream aesthetics.
A scholar of southern politics finds inspiration in an unexpected place.
Artists invented the word ‘robot’, but now robots are becoming artists, or at least assistants, themselves. As robots get smarter, artists will find more and more uses for them, particularly in sculpture.
People in visually creative professions have their own way of seeing the world.
MONA’s latest exhibition draws on the work of people - patients, housewives, hermits - who were compelled to create, raising age-old questions about how we define art.
The Art Gallery of South Australia has created something special with Versus Rodin. Works by 65 contemporary artists, surrounded by the gallery’s Rodin collection, take on a wonderful glow.
Our empathy for the anguished subject of this sculpture is heightened because although cast in bronze he is so tantalisingly human.
Changwon Sculpture Biennale casts a wide net, from a disconcerting jumble of plastic body parts to a break-dancing sculptor armed with an angle-grinder.
It’s lunacy to believe you own the moon, so why is cultural heritage any different? The Parthenon sculptures at least belong together.
Boneta-Marie Mabo’s art responds to a colonial past in which Aboriginal women were fetishised as “black velvet”. But it also celebrates strong women, including her activist grandmother Bonita Mabo.
Could Picasso’s sculptures become the most sought-after pieces of the artist’s oeuvre?
The country lost two utterly different, and utterly compelling interpreters of India’s urban world this month. They left a legacy rich with beauty and meaning.
Bondi’s highly popular Sculpture by the Sea has set up shop in Denmark – and the Aarhus event has proved to be an astonishing and very different success to its predecessor.
Conceptions of forced displacement are very often tied to the notion of “loss”. But certain things do remain.
Sarah Lucas’s show is a (resolutely cheerful) cry of frustration at the overwhelmingly male exhibition history of the British Pavilion.
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